Poppy

[Slarti]

Is this normal?

The colour is, but I've never seen such a complex one.


Slarti

OK, 2nd try

That didn't work either. The page I loaded the image at is https://imgur.com/a/0B9NZR8
Then if I take the code from the image I get https://imgur.com/EfhFp09
Both just give me Image as a result. Help?

Finally!

[maximan]

Hi Slarti

I believe they are called doubles. I have not got any myself but have seen many in National Trust Gardens.
Hope your not harvesting them for heroin lol.

[Breelander]

Is this normal?
The colour is, but I've never seen such a complex one.

Doubles of papaver somniferum like this are less common, but not unusual. They call them 'Peaony poppies'. I've grown a pink one in the past. Here are a whole range of colours and shapes...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=121 ... 1Nw-pAO0ds

Here's a white one...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/50-Semi-di-P ... 2007240959

[PinkDalek]

Also known as Poppy Peony (papaver paeoniflorum):

https://www.australianseed.com/shop/ite ... double-mix

New one on me though, thanks.

[Slarti]

Doubles of papaver somniferum like this are less common, but not unusual. They call them 'Peaony poppies'. I've grown a pink one in the past.

Can't claim any credit for them as they are self seeded.

We used to have a good display on the other side of the garden, for years, then last year they didn't show, now this year they are popping up all over the place in both red and pink (lilac?) but about 30-40 feet away from where they were before.

And they are much, much taller. Old ones were only 3-4 foot tall, these are at least 4' with most about 5' and one over 6'

Amazing what nature can do if you clear the weeds

Slarti

[Breelander]

this year they are popping up all over the place in both red and pink (lilac?) but about 30-40 feet away from where they were before.
And they are much, much taller. Old ones were only 3-4 foot tall, these are at least 4' with most about 5' and one over 6'

These poppies hybridize freely. What you get from seed may not be the same as the parent.

Like the wild poppy, the seed can remain dormant for up to 100 years, only springing to life when the conditions are right - and for a poppy that's usually a patch of recently disturbed bare ground, which is apparently just what you gave them...

Amazing what nature can do if you clear the weeds

[Nimrod103]

It is interesting that many experts regard such complex specially bred double flowers as poor sources of food for bees and other insects, and therefore should be discouraged. Yet this one seems to have arisen by normal pollination processes.

[Slarti]

It is interesting that many experts regard such complex specially bred double flowers as poor sources of food for bees and other insects, and therefore should be discouraged. Yet this one seems to have arisen by normal pollination processes.

I mentioned my last post to Mrs S and she told me that she had collected seeds from the original poppies a couple of years back and, after I had weeded, scattered them in the area where the surprise poppies appeared. But hadn't told me

The real surprises, I am reliably informed, are the Love in the Mist and Foxgloves in that area.


Don't ask me, I know nothing

Slarti

[Breelander]

The real surprises, I am reliably informed, are the Love in the Mist and Foxgloves in that area.

Foxgloves are another with a very long life for their seeds. They are a woodland plant and the seeds lie dormant for many years, awaiting a tree to fall and let the light in. Then they grow and set seed, to wait for the next opportunity.